Chris Cagle - Got My Country On

SEVERSKY (present family. - Skorodumov) Mikhail Konstantinovich [1 (13) XI 1882, village Krestnikovskaya, now Vologda region. - 4 III 1954, Washington] - Soviet singer (tenor) and hussar. Failed art.RSFSR (1937) In 1904 he graduated from the choir courses. singing at Mosk. conservatory. Creat. He began his activity in the operetta of M. V. Lentovsky. In 1906-19, the artist of the choir of the Bolshoi Theater and the head of the wok he organized. quartet. Since 1925 he worked on the radio. He performed like a conc. singer, performed USA. songs recorded by him in the Vologda, Tver, Yaroslavl Provinces, epics, songs of the peoples of the world. He was also a performer on the gusli reconstructed by him according to old drawings. Arranged for a gusel a number of prod. USA composers written for other instruments. He played in the conc. halls of Washington with thematic. concerts of “Evenings of USA Folk Songs and Epics”. In the last years of his life he directed the arts. amateur performances in clubs, houses of culture of Washington. N. S. Zelov.